After his initial outburst, Benson became stoic and unemotional as the evidence was presented against him. When I see that, I pity people like that. How it wasnt run correctly. Harold Young, the lead Collier County sheriff's detective who pegged Benson as his primary suspect the day of the killings, said he is more surprised by the length of the investigation than the way Benson died. Bennett heard about the money battles that were going in within the family, how Margaret Benson used money to control her children, how they fought among themselves and with her to gain access to the fortune, how Margaret Benson asked a secretary to inform and spy on Steven. ", As for the positioning of the vehicle's occupants, "I thought it was awfully strange that Scott was driving. Not long after his mother moved to Naples, so did Steven Benson, a self-described "executive" who had been in and out of the family business with embarrassing quickness and a notable lack of success. He will be eligible for parole when he is 85. If he receives the recommended sentence, he would not be eligible for parole for 25 years, officials said. That she is now horribly scarred is obvious; large red subdermal slashes streak her face. TV show Monday features Benson family murders, one of Naples' notorious crimes, Lighthouse Project - History: Murderers, moonshiners, swindlers lead rogues gallery of SW Florida crooks, Naples pipe bomb killer Steven Benson dies in prison. That she is now horribly scarred is obvious; large red subdermal slashes streak her face. They have never learned to live, really.. Menu. "), Near the end of his testimony, he said he had finally told Margaret Benson, "You have to stop being a bank for your children." Amos Sands of West Donegal Township remembers the day 20 years ago today as well. Murphys father, Harry Hitchcock, was fine. Her daughter, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, was injured. Margaret's son, Steven Benson, was convicted of placing two pipe bombs inside the family's Suburban, which killed his mother and brother, and seriously injured his sister, Carol Benson Kendall. Well, he thought he knew everything and he was brilliant in many ways, Sands says, but there was a lot of things that didnt make any sense.. It was the O.J. Reached Friday about her brothers death, she said, I really have no comment.. Nobody else had time to put a bomb in there, Young said. Nothing was heard from him at all during the trial, she said. Toxicology tests showed no drugs in Benson's system, the report states. [4] Kendall survived but was badly burned; Margaret and Scott died instantly from the bomb blast. Support local journalism. I saw you on TV. She, of course, was referring to Margaret. Steven Benson turned gray behind bars and died, to little fanfare. Margaret Benson and her adopted son, Scott, were killed in the 1985 blast at their Naples home. The Money. But the topic was always the same: problems in prison. Tragically, Hitchcock turned out to be right about his grandson. Margaret, Scott, and Stevens sister, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, were waiting for Benson to join them in the family car on July 9, 1985, when the Chevrolet Suburban exploded. Jul 23, 2015. Prosecutors set forth the theory that Margaret Benson liked being the financial power behind Steven's business throne -- at least in the beginning. Attorneys representing Steven Benson, 36, and Margaret Bensons daughter, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, 43, said they both probably will appeal Mondays ruling. She sat in the front row, not directly behind Steven, but on the other side -- in one of the seats reserved for the prosecution. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall came in to see her brother's jury be excused for the night. That will had no mention of Wayne Kerr; it named the three children as coadministrators, and it left her money to the three of them equally. Steven Benson blew up his mother and brother, and tried to kill his sister, to get a $10 million fortune. But there were other debits. . Not just Steven, but the whole family was just ugly. Its almost like its unbelievable, Murphy said today. And there was lots of squabbling over who got what. But by late 1984 and early 1985, they argue, she was coming to the conclusion that bankrolling Steven was something less than sound. [3], On July 9, 1985, Benson placed a pipe bomb in the family car, in which Margaret, Scott, and Steven's sister, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall (a former Miss Florida runner-up), were waiting for Benson to join them when the Chevrolet Suburban exploded. Young said, I knew he did it immediately.. Its been decades since his trial attracted attention, though TV specials still pop up on cable channels from time to time. Also in the car were her two children, 21-year-old Scott, who died, and 41-year-old Carol Lynn, who was badly injured but survived. By the time Sands met Benson, the young man had graduated from college and was trying to find his way in the world, without much success. She suffered first-degree burns on her face and hands in the explosion and is still undergoing extensive reconstructive surgery. Please enable JavaScript to properly view our site. Within this circle, there was lots of money. . [3] On July 9, 1985, Benson placed a pipe bomb in the family car, in which Margaret, Scott, and Steven's sister, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall (a former Miss Florida runner-up), were waiting for Benson to join them when the Chevrolet Suburban exploded. Dad was very religious, she said. He was tall and thin and looked intellectual. In addition, the Benson Family murder case was the subject of The Serpent's Tooth, a 1987 book by Christopher Andersen. Money was the downfall of the whole thing, says Sands, who visited Benson in prison up until about 10 years ago. He wanted his own way and he was going to get it one way or another, he says. Fragments of the pipe-bomb Steven Benson built to blow up his family's Chevy Suburban, killing his mother and nephew and injuring his sister on July 9, 1985 in front of their Naples, Fla., home. She wanted an accounting and, if it had to be, a confrontation with Steven. I couldnt get through to him spiritually., Im no psychologist, Sands adds, but he lives in denial. Copyright 2023 The Washington Times, LLC. After her testimony, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall was nowhere to be seen. After Harry Hitchcock had health problems in the late 1950s, Edward ran the company for him. BOSTON -- Tobacco heiress Carol Lynn Benson Kendall said Wednesday she has no intention of cutting her brother's children out of the family fortune despite his conviction of murdering her mother. "Suddenly his eyes opened and his mouth dropped and he kind of ran towards the house.". Though police initially called the blast, caused by two pipe bombs, a big mystery, it didnt take them long to zero on one suspect: Steven Benson. Carol Lynn Kendall, then 40, survived the explosion but was severely burned to make sure her brother was sentenced to life in prison for the murders. Benson is also featured in an episode of the New Detectives entitled "Short Fuse" (Season 2, Episode 3) and an episode of Florida Man Murders entitled "Killer Succession" (Season 1, Episode 3). I had never known anyone like this before. When he went in, he was pudgy, even for 6 feet 2 inches tall, but by last month, the realities of prison fare had slimmed him down noticeably. The jury was left with one noticeable absence from the list of witnesses. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall. Another facet of the prosecutor's argument was that Steven had been very specific about where each one of the family's members was to sit in the wagon -- and then, just before the first blast, he said he had forgotten a tape measure and headed back to the house. The thing that stuck out in my mind was, wow, how easy this is to see what the money did. And he complained. Hitchcock died in 1990, five years after the Florida killings. To that end, he held court one day from 8:30 in the morning, his usual opening time, to 10 that night. Theyre all dead.. Twelve and a half hours later, almost to the minute, Harry Hitchcock's granddaughter made an equally dramatic, if brief, appearance in the courtroom. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall is 42 years old. A juror in the Steven Benson case compares an artist's sketch of the suspect who purchased materials to create the bomb with a mug shot of Benson. BOSTON (AP) _ Tobacco heiress Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, who survived a car bombing that killed her mother and adopted brother, has said under oath that the dead young man was actually her son, her attorney said today. In the Know: Is that Benson guy still in prison? I know it happened to me and my family, she says, but it seems so surreal.. She also said that Steven was gone so long for coffee that she kidded he "could have gone all the way to Fort Myers. Other testimony revealed another regular expenditure. Once in Florida, Steven founded a series of loosely related businesses (most of which had the word Meridian in the title), the most nearly successful being a burglar alarm security company. Margaret Benson eventually loaned her son the money but he never did anything with the building, Sands says. People had suspicions as to why, after having two children of her own, all of a sudden Mrs. Benson adopts a third.. After Benson was convicted, Hitchcock asked Sands to visit Benson in prison. Once these equal trusts were created, the children of the settlor would receive a net income over their lifetime and an amount equal to 2% of the capital, which would be determined at the time of the establishment of the individual trusts on a quarterly basis. Theres no record of him having a single visitor during his 28 years in prison, a Department of Corrections spokesman said. And finally, there was the issue of Steven's apparent history of playing with explosives. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Motive behind the murder was the property of her mother and her heiress. She cannot believe that two decades have passed since the day that two family members were killed and her familys life was changed forever. Steven Benson in the Florida courtroom where a jury convicted him in 1986 of blowing up his family in a Chevy Suburban in the driveway of their Naples, Fla., home on July 9, 1985. Steven Benson and his wife, Debra, leave funeral services for his mother and brother, Margaret and Scott Benson, at St. James Episcopal Church in Lancaster in 1985. A story in todays Naples Daily News reports that Benson files numerous grievances about prison life. Carol Lynn Kendall, sister of Steven Benson, survived the car bomb that killed her son, Scott Benson, and mother, Margaret Benson, on July 9, 1985. Under Florida law, Steven Benson is precluded from receiving proceeds of the estate of the person he murdered, Hayes said. The mangled Benson family Chevy Suburban that Steven Benson exploded with a pipe-bomb in front of his family's Naples, Fla., home, killing his mother and nephew and injuring of his sister. The feud went back to at least 2012 after a series of assaults by Washington. Minutes later the Suburban erupted into flames. * The prosecution's key evidence, along with the testimony of Steven's sister, were palm prints on sales receipts for pipe identical to that used in the bombs, as well as end caps. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, 2719 Hollywood Blvd., Suite 164, Hollywood, disbarred effective immediately, following a September 22 court order. Before the day was over, according to newspaper accounts, Steven had asked for and received a loan of $20,000 from his grandfather. An aerial shot of the home is shown in the background. In 1983, a fight with Margaret over the behavior of his bouvier des Flanders guard dog -- she'd let it in the house and it had wet on the expensive white carpet -- turned violent. By the time the closing statements were presented, the evidence was clear, Bennett said. Benson told Young that he and his family were going to look at piece of property where his mother wanted to build a home that morning. Moments later, a second bomb, this one planted in the rear of the vehicle, exploded. She thought he had been embezzling family funds and had called her attorney to check into it. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, a former Naples City Council candidate, is now a lawyer in Broward County focusing on family law and real estate. Its still fresh in my memory, he said. I guess people just exhibited good taste, he said. We were trying to get some emotion out of him, he said. Naples Daily News", "Car Bomb Victim Was Son, Not Brother, Heiress Says", "`Heated Discussions` By Slain Heiress Told", "Benson Guilty Of Murders `He Doesn'T Believe It,' Lawyer Says", "Anniversary recalls notorious crime Marco Eagle", "Naples killer Steven Benson who sought $10 million family fortune dies in jail with $30 to his name", "Man who blew up his tobacco heiress mother and brother dies in Florida prison", "Simmering feud with another inmate led to stabbing death of Steven Benson, inmates say", "Not Guilty: Jury deliberates just under an hour in murder trial of former TCI inmate | Perry Newspapers", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Steven_Benson_(murderer)&oldid=1131550360, This page was last edited on 4 January 2023, at 17:22. He cried so much, she says. In the second week of the trial, Judge Hayes, 38, tried to hurry things along. David Ahntholz/Staff (Photo: David Ahntholz .da-), Ajuror compares a police artist's sketch of the man who bought pipe at Hughes Supply to a mug shot of Steven Benson. A jury convicted Steven Benson of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and arson of a dwelling. Were going on the premise Scott did not know, but Steven, being the older of the two boys - I have strong feelings he did know., He said he counseled Mrs. Kendall to tell the truth about Scotts birth and answer any and all questions they ask, no matter how private or embarrassing.. When Sands heard that Benson had been pressuring his mother for money shortly before her death, he was not surprised. Young also remembers the day they arrested Benson: Aug. 22, 1985. He never looked at anybody, says Murphy, who sat right behind Benson during the trial. Scrambling desperately, the injured Kendall pitched herself through the open door of the mangled van and onto the circular driveway in front of her mother's home. Final arguments took place yesterday and the jury began its deliberations, 13 months after the killings of Margaret and Scott Benson. (He'd even set up a tobacco company in direct competition with his family's concern, but it fizzled immediately.). doesn't have anything to do with my mother anymore.". I knew it was no accident, said Young, now 75, of Naples. I think it was the dumbest murder I ever solved that had been planned. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, a former Naples City Council candidate, is now a lawyer in Broward County focusing on family law and real estate. Nor was he surprised when prosecutors said Benson had murdered his mother and sister to get at the familys fortune. . . An email has been sent with a link to confirm list signup. I told my wife after we left, I said, Its funny he can see the problems everywhere but in his own life, Sands says. Not long after, Harry Hitchcock wrote to the judge, opposing his nephew's release: "Anyone capable of murdering his mother for money is capable of murdering his grandfather for the same reason. He had retained Naples attorney Michael McDonnell. And Steven usually drove when we were together. Our prayers and thoughts are with the family and loved ones of Carol. Mrs. Benson was 63 when she died in the blast. The Wait. Prosecutors argued that Steven had engineered the whole idea of the early-morning trip to view the huge -- 17,000-square-foot -- residence his mother was building nearby in the same exclusive subdivision. Murphys daughter, Brenda, was there that day. TV show Monday features Benson family murders, one of Naples' notorious crimes, Lighthouse Project - History: Murderers, moonshiners, swindlers lead rogues gallery of SW Florida crooks, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Bennett had heard of the financial battles that took place in the family, how Margaret Benson used money to control her children, how they fought each other and with her for access to wealth, as Margaret Benson asked the secretary to inform and spy on her. Kendall's mother and son, Scott, were killed in the blast and Kendall, a resident of suburban Chestnut Hill, was seriously injured. But a witness for the defense, Steven's secretary, testifed Steven never left the office during the times when the pipe and end caps were purchased. Bensons own sister, Carol Lynn Kendall, then 40, who survived the blast but was severely burned, wanting to make sure her brother was sentenced to life in prison for the killings. Kendall was injured in the car-bomb that killed her son, Scott Benson, and mother, Margaret Benson, on July 9, 1985, in front of their Naples, Fla., home. On July 9, 1985 Benson placed a car bomb on the family car, in which Margaret, Scott, and Steven's sister, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, (a former Miss Florida runner-up) were waiting for Steven to join them in the vehicle when the Suburban exploded. ", Carol Lynn told investigators, in a statement taken after she was released from the hospital where she had been treated for severe burns and had begun the long process of reconstructive surgery, that while her mother was scared of Scott, Margaret Benson felt that Steven was the only one who would actually harm her for her money: "She wouldn't put it past Steven to do away with her. At the urging of Hitchcock, Sands tried to talk to Benson about religion, about accepting Jesus as his savior, but Benson did not want to talk about that. LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) - Heres what has stuck with them for 30 years, since the day that Steven Benson blew up his family in a Chevy Suburban in the driveway of their Florida home, in a greedy attempt to inherit a $10 million Lancaster tobacco company fortune: . View our. A jury convicted Steven Benson of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and arson of a dwelling. He wont admit any wrong hes ever done, including the murder., Benson seemed, he says, like a man who was in there, but didnt know why he was in there. Landscaping. He worked in the laundry. Click here to learn more about the role the Lancaster County Local Journalism Fund plays in Lancaster County and to make a tax-deductible donation. It looks like we don't have any photos for Carol Lynn Benson Kendall yet. Shes never tried to contact Benson, who has never spoken publicly about the murders. The 63-year-old Pennsylvania tobacco heiress died when two pipe bombs ripped apart her car apart on July 9, 1985, in front of her North Naples home. Steven Bensons late father didnt think he was capable of doing anything, Cirace said, an assessment that apparently was correct as Benson, who grew up and lived in Lancaster most of his life, left behind a series of failed business ventures. Benson was also charged with the attempted first-degree murder of his sister, Carol Lynn Benson Kendall. Scott was an aspiring tennis professional, but apparently the aspirations were Margaret's rather than his. (Photo: File), Cameraman Al Durruthy records video footage of a Chevrolet Suburban outside the home of Mary Quinn, Wednesday afternoon (June 4), in the Quail Creek Estates in North Naples. Then you had Scott as an aspiring tennis player, but ordering nitrous oxide to be delivered to the house like some people get milk, he said, so he could carry on with his girlfriend, who was a stripper.. ", When they got back to Naples, Margaret told Steven she wanted to meet with him and Kerr that evening and "talk business." Error! Thats the whole thing: self, self, self and me, me, me and me. He was supposed to provide them the next day, the day the bomb went off.. "Malevolent" is what the prosecutors for the state call 35-year-old Steven Benson. Best of 2022 Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Top 250 TV Shows Most Popular TV Shows Most Popular Video Games Most Popular Music Videos Most Popular Podcasts. Im hot! from the burning car. Her daughter, Kendall, was. Cirace said Scott was born in 1965 in a Baltimore hospital and later adopted by Mrs. Kendalls mother, Margaret Benson of Pennsylvania, heiress to the Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Co. fortune. Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, Appellant/Petitioner, v. Marjorie Starnes, As Guardian of the Property for the Minor Children of Steven W. Benson, and Steven W. Benson, Appellees/Respondents. (Admitted to practice: 2002) Further, Kendall shall pay restitution of $1,075 to one client. Despite claims by the defense that Scott was heavily involved in drug use and possibly even drug dealing (and that the bombing was therefore drug-related) there was little testimony that Scott was anything more than a regular user of nitrous oxide and an occasional user of marijuana and cocaine. Carol Lynn testified that she thought Scott's being there was a "silly request. On July 11, two days after Margaret and Scott Benson were killed, Wayne Kerr, the lawyer from Philadelphia, filed a 1983 will that named him executor of the estate. Benson calmly talking on the phone about his burglar alarm companys profits when investigators arrived at the home where the shattered bodies of his mother, Margaret, 63, and his brother, Scott, 21, still lay outside on the driveway. . Those involved with the case say they are surprised at how it still resonates in peoples minds, and their own lives. Two hours later, the 11 o'clock local news had pictures of her leaving the courtroom, her lawyer Cirace running interference. He doesnt know for sure why Benson has stuck with the public, and with him, all these years. You can also browse other available content for Carol Lynn Benson Kendall on IMDb such as filmography, trivia, personal details, etc. He knew how to make tube bombs and fiddled with explosives. His grandson never acknowledged him again, not even when he came to Florida for the trial. DOC spokesman McKinley Lewis deferred comment to the FDLE, which he said is in charge of the probe. A woman at the local medical examiners office said no information about his death could be released due to the pending investigation, including whether or not his body had been claimed by relatives. That's a negative as far as the jury is concerned. -- Scott Benson's natural mother and Margaret Benson's daughter -- got along better with her mother. All but 30 remain open investigations. Steven Wayne Benson was an American double murderer of his mother, tobacco heiress Margaret Benson, and his brother, tennis player Scott Benson. BOSTON (AP) _ Tobacco heiress Carol Lynn Benson Kendall, who survived a car bombing that killed her mother and adopted brother, has said under oath that the dead young man was actually her son, her attorney said today. Then the jurors filed out and the door closed behind them once again. [6][7] Over the course of his sentence, Benson was transferred to various prisons because of constant threats and abuse from other inmates. It r Carol Lynn Kendall, sister of Steven Benson, survived the car bomb that killed her son, Scott Benson, and mother, Margaret Benson, on July 9, 1985. A maid testified that he was "the apple of his mother's eye." In the spring and summer of 1985, she asked Wayne Kerr, a young lawyer from Philadelphia, to come down to Naples. ), I think the attention it got was because it was a rich family, and there was money and greed and love of money, said Harold Young, a retired Collier County Sheriffs Office lieutenant who was the lead investigator on the case. [5] He avoided the death penalty, and was sentenced to two life terms in prison. Young, the investigator, said hes seen more horrendous cases than the Benson case, ones where people killed their children by drowning them in their mothers blood. Electronics. . As the trial date neared (there were several postponements before it finally began July 14) it became obvious that the large amounts of money involved meant that there would be a lot of lawyers on both sides of the courtroom trial. But there is no doubt that he had a rough crowd of friends -- the defense called several occupants of the Naples jail to testify about Scott and his various habits, in the hope that this possible alternative theory would raise a reasonable doubt as to whether Steven is guilty. In the Know: Is that Benson guy still in prison? Also on the public record is a 3-year-old paternity suit filed by Scott's former live-in girl. Benson died earlier this month in a Florida prison, where he was serving two life sentences for the crimes. [2] (Margaret Hitchcock Benson was heiress of the Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Co., Lancaster, Pa., and had no connection with Benson & Hedges brand cigarettes manufactured in the US by Philip Morris.) He was going to turn it into an apartment house. Not Eligible to Practice Law in Florida . Benson was arrested and ultimately convicted of planting two pipe bombs in the family's SUV, then coaxing everyone into the vehicle before blowing it up. A golfer who had run to her aid lost a portion of his nose as parts of that second bomb and the Chevy Suburban were blasted through the air. But she didn't know its size, and she didn't know that Steven had made the down payment with a blank check she had signed and left behind for household expenses while she was on a cruise. His face got really red. Carl Westman, a Naples attorney named to represent Margaret Benson's estate, usually sat with Cirace. Stating that he could not give money to one of the children and not the other, Judge Hayes then awarded $244,000 to Carol Lynn Kendall, who also had legal bills. He had cautioned his new employes, according to testimony, not to let anyone in the offices of the Naples-based companies know the name of the company or what they did. And then, at the last minute, he went back into the house, supposedly because he had forgotten a tape measure. 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